Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 2

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Page 5 An almost imperceptible negative movement of the head was all the answer she
made. “Why are you looking so serious 2" he pursued, and immediately thought
that habitual seriousness, in the long run, was much more bearable than constant
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Page 8 Looking toward him with a movement of her eyes only, the girl noticed the strong
feeling on his face with that intense interest which his person awakened in her
mind and in her heart. But it soon passed away, leaving only a moody expression
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Page 22 With her other hand she made a gesture that seemed to embrace in one movement the earth and the heaven. “I wouldn't do such a thing.” Then came a
silence, broken at last by Heyst: “I! I do a deadly wrong to my poor Morrison!” he
cried.

Page 24 I—” A brusque movement of his arm, flinging her hand away, stopped her short.
Heyst had again lost control of himself. He would have shouted, if shouting had
been in his character. “No, this earth must be the appointed hatching planet of ...

Page 25 Before she could make a movement, or even turn her head his way, he took her
in his arms and kissed her lips. He tasted on them the bitterness of a tear fallen
there. He had never seen her cry. It was like another appeal to his tenderness —
a ...